Striga] Lxxxix. sceophulariace^. 779 



LOANDA. — A herb, bright green in the living state, even the ovaries 

 and capsules herbaceous-green and as also the stem and scales 

 varnished-glossy ; flowers violet in colour, open nearly throughout the 

 year ; in moist sandy places, parasitical at the roots of Shutereia Ucolnr 

 Choisy (Welw. Coll. Carp. 761), about Loanda, as for instance at 

 Represa de Luiz Gomes ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 and April 1854. 

 Primary stem usually twisted and deformed, the other stems strictly 

 erect, 6 to 12 in. high, as well as the ovate-acuminate scale-like leaves 

 pale green quickly turning black ; branchlets quite erect, adpressed 

 to the stems, floribund as well as the stems ; floral leaves bract-like, 

 scarcely reaching half-way up the calyx ; flowers almost always violet, 

 very rarely white, never seen otherwise coloured ; calyx-ribs thick, 

 raised ; the 2 lateral bracteoles lanceolate ; in rather damp sandy 

 somewhat muddy depressions where rain-water ponds, from Loanda 

 towards Quicuxe, plentiful ; fl. and young fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 5916. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual, green herb, the whole plant turning 

 black in drying ; flowers lilac. In damp bushy places at the river 

 Luxillo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5848. 



MosSAMEDES. — A dusky red herb with pale bluish flowers. In 

 sandy bushy places at the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5824. 



2. S. Thunbergii Benth. in Hook., I.e., p. 363. 



Buchnera asiatica L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 630 (1753) partly. 

 B. bilabiata Thunb. Prodr. PI. Cap. p. 100 (1800). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A somewhat fleshy herb, green in the living 

 state ; flowers very bright violet in colour. In moist pastures near 

 Condo ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 5854. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers red-purple. In the damp meadows of the 

 Monino, in company with species of Primulacese and Burmannia bicolor 

 Mait. var. africana Eidl. (Welw. Herb. No. 6473) ; fl. and fr. Dec. 

 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 5822. 



3. S. canesoens Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 361 (1895). 

 HuiLLA. — An annual herb ; root subsimple ; stems few, very 



slender, erect ; leaves opposite, lanceolate-linear, subulate ; adpressed 

 closely to the stem ; flowers pale lilac. In little woods of Proteaceae, 

 among herbs, at the river Monino, sparingly ; fl. end oC Nov. 1859. 

 No. 5823. 



In our specimens the lobes of the anterior lip of the corolla are 

 ovate- oblong rather than lanceolate, and the plants are less hoary than 

 in the type. 



4. S. Welwitschii Engl. in. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. 514, t. xii. fig. p, g. 

 HuA.LA. — An annual, parasitical, pUose-viscid, canescent herblet, in 



habit somewhat resembling a species of thyme ; stem erect, sparingly 

 branched towards the apex ; flowers pale lilac. In thickets on a sandy 

 clay soil, about LopoUo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 5820. 

 Flowers whitish ; in sandy thickets on the right bank of the Lopollo 

 river ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. Flowers white ; in hilly bushy sandy 

 places among short grasses, between the IvantMa lake and Quilengues ; 

 fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 5821. 



5. S. elegans Benth. in Hook., I.e., p. 363. 



PuN(iO Andongo. — A green parasitical herb, with splendid scarlet 

 flowers. In moist meadows near Sobato N-billa ; £1. and fr. March 

 1857. No. 5851. 



